That doesn't make the UK any more or less separate or distinctive from Europe- if anything it shows we were very good at something that is a very European activity- colonialism!beastro said:Oh, but you are. The fact that I live in a daughter nation of yours that isn't a third world cess-pool is testament to that fact, as is the fact that we're not the only one.Nickolai77 said:Britain is just one among many; even if some Britons on the right/conservative side of politics like to think we're somehow different.
Very, very few European daughter nations can say the same thing.
But not necessarily in a way that implies separatism or exceptionalism from the rest of Europe, which is a political bent, hence why you were accused of using UKIP/EDL rhetoric before.And it isn't a political bent. Britons have been calling them Continentals for centuries.
Would you like to take this to R&P? I'm concious about derailing this thread.